[microsound] noisy hard drive on mac

[i8u]

it does sound like a good alternative indeed,

regarding bootable external drive,

any latency issues related to this whether in the studio or in a live
context?


> I put a 7200 seagate in mine and it's faster now.  I couldn't say by how
> much though.  On both drives I could run like 50 tracks of audio with
> plugins and mastering on the buss.  I would say instead of replacing the
> drive, buy a large external firewire 800 drive and make it bootable.  This
> way you have a backup drive, something you'll need anyway if you want
> insurance on your music, you get to keep your apple care which you will
> need
> for something else at some point, and if your drive does crash you can
> just
> run your computer off your bootable external backup.  Trust me, this is
> easy
> to set up and probably your best route.
>
> check out this website for great deals on quality external drives / ram /
> whatever you need for your mac
>
> http://www.macsales.com/
>
> Making a drive bootable can easily be done using the disks that came with
> your mac.  Whole thing done and running in less than an hour...  and yes
> the
> 7200 internal will be louder.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, i8u <muse at i8u.com> wrote:
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>> sure why not? something to remember it by!
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>> > You're going to record it for our collection of hard drive noises
>> right?
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